Date and Time: Sat 26th June, 1pm
Venue: St Kieran’s Hall,
Cloughjordan, Ireland.
Part of the Cloughjordan Festival.…
Lectures by Feasta members
On the Precipice – David Korowicz
Date and Time: Sunday 29th November at 2pm
Venue: The Collective Gallery, Cockburn St, Edinburgh, Scotland (part of the Bank of Reason event)
The transition to low carbon: policy frameworks and community action
Date and Time: 20-21 November 2009
Venue: Discovery Centre, Winchester, UK
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Including presentations by Feasta members:
- Richard Douthwaite (Feasta) Why Cap Emissions if Peak Oil is Coming Anyway?
- Brian Davey (Cap + Share UK) Climate Policy under Conditions of Contraction: When Complex Solutions Go Pear Shaped
- Richard Douthwaite (Feasta) How a community can fund its own energy supply
Ceiliúradh ’09: Building Sustainable Communities
Date and Time: 10am Wednesday 28th – 5:30pm Thursday 29th October 2009
Venue: Tipperary Institute, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
Presentation by Richard Douthwaite on Local Economy.
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Things Fall Apart: Talk by David Korowicz
Over on the Oil Drum website you can now download a presentation given by Feasta’s David Korowicz at the ASPO/Oil Drum conference in Alcatraz, Italy in June 2009. The talk is entitled “Things Fall Apart: Complexity, Supply Chains, Infrastructure & Collapse“…
Dan Sullivan – Capturing the value of the commons: Land Value Tax as a community development tool
Dan Sullivan contrasted the experience of Pittsburgh and Cleveland in the present downturn. Cleveland is struggling to stem a complete collapse of its housing market while in Pittsburgh, foreclosure rates are low, home prices are climbing slightly and construction rates are increasing. He attributed the difference to the fact that Pittsburgh has a site value tax and Cleveland does not.
